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The oriental melon (Cucumis melo Makuwa Group) is a group of Cucumis melo cultivars that are produced in East Asia. [1] [2] Phylogenetic studies tracing the genetic lineage of the plant suggest that it may have originated in eastern India, having then spread to China over the Silk Road, from which it was introduced to Korea and Japan.
Clothing and colour in China also played an important role in representing its wearer's identity, rank, and culture. [1] Clothing which were decorated with Chinese dragons and cosmological symbols, rank badges were typically symbol of status of the ruling class in ancient China.
In present day China, the Sanxing and other Chinese folk deities continue to be perceived as powerful carrier of good fortune. [2] The Queen Mother of the West , Xi Wangmu, who is often figured in Chinese stories, is associated with symbols of longevity in Chinese arts as the peaches of immortality are believed to grow in her celestial peach ...
Fruit carving is included in Matthias Giegher's 1621 work Il Trinciante ("The Carver"), where he describes carving oranges and citrons into abstract patterns, shell-fish, four-legged animals and the Habsburgs' double-headed eagle, but the art was not common in Europe or North America until the 1980s when several books on the topic were published.
Kolkhoznitsa melon: Cucumis melo 'Kolkhoznitsa' Limelon: Cucumis melo: Mirza melon: Cucumis melo 'Mirza' Muskmelon: Cucumis melo: Natal orange: Strychnos spinosa: North American cantaloupe: Cucumis melo var. reticulatus: Oriental melon: Cucumis melo Makuwa Group Santa Claus melon: Cucumis melo var. inodorus 'Sancho' Sprite melon: Cucumis melo ...
Oriental pickling melon, called wolgwa (월과; 越瓜) in Korean, [1] and shirouri (シロウリ; 白瓜) in Japanese, [1] is a group of nonsweet melon cultivars used in Asian cuisines. The melon is used as a vegetable in Asian cuisines .
They also have different patterns for different usages (e.g. butterflies and flowers represented the wish for love and marriage; golden melons and children represented the wishes for longevity and more children; images of qilin represented the wishes for carrying a son). [1] Each areas in China have a distinctive forms of hebao. [1]
The Bailan melon (Chinese: 白蘭瓜) is a locally famous melon grown near Lanzhou, the capital city of Gansu province in the People's Republic of China. [1] It is a variety of honeydew melon , globose to subglobose and typically has white skin with sweet, white or pale green, flesh. [ 2 ]